Spotfire® Web Client User Guide

Web page panel

The Web page panel is a tool that allows you to view web pages in Spotfire. This is useful, for instance, if you use some kind of web-based tool to communicate at your workplace, enabling users to work together by participating in communication threads about different subjects.

Note: If you use TIBCO Cloud™ Spotfire®, the Web page panel is not available.
Note: Some of the functionality described here can only be authored or accessed using the installed Spotfire client.


To configure the Web page panel, you enter a URL to a web page that Spotfire will show in the panel (in the installed client).

In the installed client, the Web page panel will run an instance of the Chromium Embedded Framework installed on the computer to parse content. In web clients, the panel will open in an iframe and use the same rendering function available to the rest of the web client. If the Web page panel is used in both the installed client and the web client, this could potentially lead to differences in html rendering between different web browser versions.

Note: The Web page panel is configured per page in the analysis, so you can link the Web page panel on different pages to different URLs. This way, it can be possible to follow several different subjects within a single analysis.


Type or paste the URL to the web page of interest in the text box.
Note: Your Spotfire Administrator might have specified that only certain URIs should be allowed to link to. If that is the case, then a list of the allowed base URI addresses will be shown in the dialog. An administrator can add more addresses to the Whitelist for Allowed URIs preference found under ApplicationPreferences in the Administration manager. If an allowed URI includes a wildcard character (for example, http://*.example.com/ ), then you can use any path within that specified domain.